tOfficial "Johnny Manziel" Superthread

[JDM]

I assume that by this they mean with pick #33.

That would still be all kinds of retarded. Trading the pick away for the last pick of the draft would get more value from it.

 

[fordman84]

Well, it is the theory in Jerrah world.

When was the last "sexy" offensive pick? Dez? Trying to remember another first round offensive pick in recent years. Since Emmitt in 1990 Dallas has taken 6 offensive players in the first round. Two of those were OL-men. The others were Alvin Harper, Felix Jones, David LaFleur, and Dez.

 

[LucklessPadresFan]

Dallas Cowboys will find way to get Johnny Manziel in 2014 NFL draft? | Audibles - SI.com


Is Jones losing his mind completely…. I"m not saying Manziel can't pan out to be a fine QB, but Dallas is soft on defense and your not winning in football with the worst defense in the NFL… If he trades UP to nab Manziel and gives up draft picks Cowboy fans have every right to freak out …. Dallas can't run the ball and they can't stop anyone on defense… THE LAST thing that should be on Jerry's mind is Manziel… You don't build a good team with sexy offensive picks year in and year out…

What??? What about their O and D lines? Romo is a good QB and if the Cowboys could get healthy, espcially on defense, there is no reason why they can't take their division in 2014. If Jones trades for Manziel, he will become the laughing stock of the NFL.

 

[Retroram52]

Just like the spray-painted message on the overpass in Dallas: Jerry Jones is a Goober!

 

[cowboycolors]

Just like the spray-painted message on the overpass in Dallas: Jerry Jones is a Goober!

got a location or a picture of that message ?

 

[Clayton]

Jerry Jones woke up and saw that the Cowboys werent headlining
Manziel was headlining
Jerry Jones talks up Manziel for headlines


/thread

 

[Brees#1]

He's not gonna be available in rd 2(cowboys?)

 

[Brees#1]

Looks like texans are about to trade the pick to Atlanta. I was on rams board and some article posted a couple hours ago made it seem like they will be trading it.

 

[Rumble Fish]

My sources are telling me that he may drop to the second round. Most teams are not going to "reach" for a player of his size and skill level.

 

[Kevin12773]

My sources are telling me that he may drop to the second round. Most teams are not going to "reach" for a player of his size and skill level.

Oh great another guy that has sources. That's the 1,742 person on the hoop with sources.

 

[Brees#1]

Go to the rams message board and see for yourself. The one that is more active. Then go to the draft thread about rams scenario of staying or trading down.

 

[HaroldSeattle]

]My sources are telling me that he may drop to the second round.[/B] Most teams are not going to "reach" for a player of his size and skill level.

Mmmm sounds like Rather Be Fishing IMO.

 

[Brees#1]

Jerry Jones is going to sabotage this draft big time for the texans if they are not careful.

 

[Brees#1]

Rams now want Manziel? Smokescreen? I think NFC teams don't want Atlanta to get first pick and putting pressure on Houston.

 

[ATL96Steeler]

Things are quiet here in ATL...that could mean a trade is in the making. At least in the media, word is no deal for 2 #1s. I assume HOU came back with something less. The sticking point could be ATL's 2nd rd pick... ATL really wants an OT in the 2nd even if they get Clowney...and they would be in position for one @ 2.37

If that pick goes to HOU, maybe they pkg their 3rd & 4th (have 2 in 4th) to get back into the 2nd...idk...I'd be surprised if ATL doesn't not come away from this draft without a top tier OT.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Johnny Manziel and Baseball

Before Johnny Football, there was Johnny Baseball.
Early in the evening, Johnny Baseball would head out to a field in Kerrville, Texas, and take some extra batting practice. One time, he forgot his gear inside Tivy High School and didn't have a key to get inside, so he ambled over to the diamond wearing flip-flops. He asked to take a few rips anyway. His coach obliged and his friend Logan Vick handed him a bat. Swing after swing, a teenage boy in shower sandals kept hitting balls over the fence, maybe 400 feet, maybe more.
Then there was that other time, during his tryout for the elite travel team in Kerrville, when Johnny Baseball was 12 and the team was full of 13-year-olds. The first thing the coaches did was time him running from home to first base and home to second, where he clocked in a full two seconds faster than the next best on the team. Soon enough, he was the starting shortstop.
And that lasted until the summer of 2009, when a scout named Buzzy Keller showed up at a tournament with the Kerrville Indians and approached their coach, Freddie Russ, with a question.
"Is Johnny still on this team?" Keller asked.
No, Russ said, Johnny's at a quarterback camp.
Both understood what that meant. In Texas, football is the undisputed champion of the sporting world, quarterback the top spot in the kingdom, baseball an oft-forgotten species. And even though Adam Dunn and Carl Crawford turned down the lure of football to pursue baseball professionally, they are the outliers. The rest took the well-trodden path that turned Johnny Baseball into Johnny Football and has taken Johnny Football to the sorts of heights baseball couldn't match, no matter how deep his love.
And make no mistake: Johnny Manziel did, and does, love baseball, even as he prepares for the most important night of his career: Thursday's NFL draft, in which he'll go in the first round, though nobody is certain where. The first time Buzzy Keller met Manziel, he asked him: "Do you like to play baseball?" And Keller, now 80, in his 45th year of professional baseball as a scout, remembers the reply: "I'd rather play baseball than anything."
Manziel himself said the same last year when he threw out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game: "Always thought I was going to be a baseball player."
He was the classic great athlete who flashed enough baseball talent to cause those around him to dream. Russ, one of the deans of central Texas baseball, couldn't believe his fortune. He called his son Chris, who reached Triple-A, and couldn't stop raving about Manziel's tools. At one point, Russ said, Chris got a smidgen defensive and asked: "Is he better than I was?"
"I didn't know what to say," Russ said.
Manziel gave scouts the feelings, too. Though he played shortstop, they saw him as a do-everything center fielder whose speed would help him track balls in the gaps and swipe bases. In his junior season at Kerrville, he hit .416, whacked seven home runs, drove in 35 and left those who saw him wanting more.
The University of Oregon, where Manziel first committed, planned on letting him play both sports. He took an unofficial visit to the University of Texas, where Russ' son Ryan was an assistant coach. Around the office, he had shown the rest of the coaches videos of Manziel for years. Mostly football, truth be told, but the baseball ones showed a fluid athlete who was at his best moving side to side. At one point, when Manziel kicked a couple of routine groundballs, Freddie Russ suggested he charge them so he could be on the move, where he was most comfortable.
At the end of his visit in Austin, Russ said, Manziel spoke for 45 minutes with longtime Longhorns head coach Augie Garrido, who at the end of the conversation couldn't get over how Manziel locked eyes with him. The sort of skills that translate so well at quarterback were apparent to those in baseball, too, and had Texas football coach Mack Brown offered Manziel a shot at quarterbacking, he might have stuck with baseball.
Instead, he graduated from Tivy early, missed his senior season in baseball entirely to enroll at Texas A&M and never again saw a competitive pitch. While Manziel did correspond with Aggies baseball coach Rob Childress, any chance of him playing baseball in College Station died when he beat out Jameill Showers for the starting quarterback gig in 2012.
"It can be done," Childress said, "but it's awful hard to be the trigger man for football and come and do baseball."
Manziel's Heisman Trophy successor, Jameis Winston, does it at Florida State. And the quarterback for the reigning Super Bowl champions, Russell Wilson, managed the balance while at North Carolina State. Childress wasn't that lucky.
He settled for watching Manziel throw out the first pitch at Padres and Rangers games and wondered what might've been, like one Texas-based scout who saw Manziel in high school and opined: "Like most high school hitters, you had to dream."
They still do dream, and they'll keep dreaming as Manziel carves his way through defenses and brings to football the dynamism that enriches their what-could've-been baseball fantasies.
"I would like to have seen Johnny Baseball," Childress said, "but Johnny Football was pretty good here."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/johnny...had-he-stuck-with-baseball-203055835-nfl.html

I mean, the kid is just a natural athlete, sure he would be successful there as well.

Here you go, Mcnabb, hope you like my JF thread.

 

[redseat]

Johnny needs to STFU!

(not you.. the actual player)

 

[mcnabb7542]

Breaking news, Jay Glazer is reporting that the Browns will not take Johnny Football with there 4th pick!

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Johnny needs to STFU!

(not you.. the actual player)

I'm hurt. just kidding!

Breaking news, Jay Glazer is reporting that the Browns will not take Johnny Football with there 4th pick!

Serious or nah?

 

[redseat]

Breaking news, Jay Glazer is reporting that the Browns will not take Johnny Football with there 4th pick!

how the mighty have fallen!